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Lyrics as Storytelling
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The best singers know how to get to the heart of the text. Composer/arranger Lisa DeSpain presents effective lyric and dramatic analysis techniques for solo and choral singers. Learn how to interpret texts and connect with song lyrics in order to enhance emotional expression and musical storytelling. Lisa will share practical tools and activities to deepen your students' understanding and connection with the words they sing. • Replay of our live webinar from August 3, 2024. Click here https://bit.ly/LyricsAsStorytelling for resources that were shared during the webinar. • Presented by Lisa DeSpain • Lisa DeSpain is an award-winning composer of opera and musicals. Her operatic works include That Hellbound Train, a jazz/blues “deal with the devil” story, Staggerwing (Opera Kansas), about the female pilots winning the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race, Song of the Nightingale (On Site Opera,) a modern retelling of the Hans Christan Anderson fairy tale, and No Ladies In the Lady's Book (Utah Opera) about the lost stories of women who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad. • Her musical for middle school performers, Like I Care!, Tale of a Middle School Scrooge, addresses issues of Internet pressures and bullying. She is the arranger of many of Alfred's musical theatre medlies including, Hamilton, Funny Girl, and In the Heights. • Lisa is the winner of the 2018 Opera America Grant for Female Composers, the 2020 Zepcik Modern Opera Commission, and a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Award. • Lisa DeSpain is a Professor of Music at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY and clinician teaching masterclasses in composing for the musical theatre/opera stage.
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